Example sentences of "[been] [verb] do a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been asked to do a couple of days work in Aberdeen sometime next month and also some part time development/fund-raising work for a charity ( The Association for the Preservation of Rural Scotland ) . |
| 2 | Been asked to do a survey on the spoken word . |
| 3 | Erm for one world week on the twenty fourth of October and we 've been asked to do a stall there . |
| 4 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 5 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 6 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |